Susan O'Keeffe (Labour)

It is a cheap shot to suggest a Minister is hiding from us.

Will the Minister for Health ensure people such as young Meadhbh McGivern will not have to worry about how they get home when their transportation is arranged? Our thoughts are with Meadhbh as she recovers in London and with her brave parents. Without their decision to enter the public arena we would not have discovered the incredible mess that surrounded the transportation of patients such as Meadhbh. The head of the HSE, Cathal Magee, has given an assurance to the McGiverns that he will do whatever is necessary to ensure her safe transport home whenever that may occur, and we all pray it will be sooner rather than later. The idea that Cathal Magee would have to intervene specifically in her case raises the issue that it is still done on an ad hoc basis. Will the Minister for Health give this matter priority so that the HSE, in its reorganisation of transport for patients such as Meadhbh, will ensure that coming home is treated as importantly as leaving?